Just in time for Daniel Barenboim's 80th birthday on November 15, this beautiful limited 3 vinyl edition of his recording of Mendelssohn's complete cycle of "Songs without Words" from the 1970s is released in the original artwork of the LP box set of that time as well as with the texts of the edition that was highly praised by the press even then: FonoForum 7/1986: "Daniel Barenboim's recording shows the qualities of his piano playing, unchanged to this day; the melodicism develops uninhibitedly yet vividly, the 'tone' has conciseness while being reasonably flexible; everything flows, rarely is anything brushed against the grain."

Tracklist:

FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809–1847)

Lieder ohne Worte / Songs without Words

LP 1

SIDE A

1–6 Op. 19b (MWV SD 5) with “Hunting Song”, “Venetian Gondola Song”

7–9 Op. 30 nos. 1–3 (MWV SD 9)

SIDE B

1–3 Op. 30 nos. 4–6 (MWV SD 9) with “Venetian Gondola Song”

4–9 Op. 38 nos. 1–6 (MWV SD 16) with “Duetto”

LP 2

SIDE A

1–6 Op. 53 nos. 1–6 (MWV SD 23) with “Folk Song”

7–9 Op. 62 nos. 1–3 (MWV SD 29) with “Funeral March”

SIDE B

1–3 Op. 62 nos. 4–6 (MWV SD 29) with “Venetian Gondola Song”, “Spring Song”

4–9 Op. 67 nos. 1–6 (MWV SD 32) “with Spinning Song”

LP 3

SIDE A

1–6 Op. 85 nos. 1–6 (MWV SD 46)

7–12 Op. 102 nos. 1–6 (MWV SD 54)

SIDE B

1–6 6 Children’s Pieces op. 72 (MWV SD 36)

7 Gondola Song in A major (MWV U 136)

8 Andante cantabile e Presto agitato

in B major/B minor WoO 6 (MWV U 141)

9 Album Leaf in E minor op. 117 (MWV U 134)